Name: Parallel 1 - Inflation
Start: 2008-08-25T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2008-08-25T19:00:00-05:00
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Parallel 1 - Inflation

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 2:00 PM

Monday, August 25, 2008
2:00 PM Boom and bust inflation: a graceful exit via compact extra dimensions - Adam Brown
Boom and bust inflation: a graceful exit via compact extra dimensions
- Adam Brown
2:00 PM - 2:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
2:20 PM How to Generate a Cosmological Power Asymmetry - Adrienne Erickcek (Caltech)
How to Generate a Cosmological Power Asymmetry
- Adrienne Erickcek (Caltech)
2:20 PM - 2:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
2:40 PM Non-perturbative particle production from SUSY flat directions – a spoiler of delayed thermalisation? - Anders Basbøll (University of Aarhus)
Non-perturbative particle production from SUSY flat directions – a spoiler of delayed thermalisation?
- Anders Basbøll (University of Aarhus)
2:40 PM - 2:58 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
3:00 PM Testing inflationary paradigm at the LHC - Anupam Mazumdar (Lancaster University / University of Copenhagen)
Testing inflationary paradigm at the LHC
- Anupam Mazumdar (Lancaster University / University of Copenhagen)
3:00 PM - 3:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
3:20 PM Early Stage of Anisotropic Inflation Driven by a Vector Field - Burak Himmetoglu (University of Minnesota)
Early Stage of Anisotropic Inflation Driven by a Vector Field
- Burak Himmetoglu (University of Minnesota)
3:20 PM - 3:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
3:40 PM Break
Break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Outside Lecture Hall
4:00 PM Constraining deviations from statistical isotropy in the primordial perturbations - Cristian Armendariz-Picon (Syracuse University)
Constraining deviations from statistical isotropy in the primordial perturbations
- Cristian Armendariz-Picon (Syracuse University)
4:00 PM - 4:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
4:20 PM Preheating after mulfi-field Inflation - Diana Battefeld (Helsinki Institute of Physics)
Preheating after mulfi-field Inflation
- Diana Battefeld (Helsinki Institute of Physics)
4:20 PM - 4:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
4:40 PM Preheating in Derivatively-Coupled Inflation Models - Eric West (Syracuse University)
Preheating in Derivatively-Coupled Inflation Models
- Eric West (Syracuse University)
4:40 PM - 4:58 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
5:00 PM Radiation Driven Inflation - Ilya Gurwich (Ben-Gurion University)
Radiation Driven Inflation
- Ilya Gurwich (Ben-Gurion University)
5:00 PM - 5:18 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
5:20 PM Tachyon Mediated non-Gaussianity - Louis Leblond (Texas A&M University)
Tachyon Mediated non-Gaussianity
- Louis Leblond (Texas A&M University)
5:20 PM - 5:38 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
5:40 PM Strings, Texture and the CMB - Bjorn Garbrecht (UW - Madison)
Strings, Texture and the CMB
- Bjorn Garbrecht (UW - Madison)
5:40 PM - 5:58 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
6:00 PM Reception & Poster Session
Reception & Poster Session
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Grand Terrace